Dinsmore - your goal of numerous 3 lb bass is achievable. To get it with consistency and dependably you will have to closely follow the suggestions noted above.
If it were me, for my initial stocker bass, I would get them from American Sportfish or Greg Grimes at Aquatic Environmental Services in Georgia. Dependable high quality genetics. Be sure they know & understand your goals. Try hard to locate and get single sex bass; IMO females. As mentioned, The problem with mixed sex bass they reproduce too much to give you too much small bass competition which suppresses the overall growth of the bass due to too little food availability. Bass Crowding also does not help to keep a "special" balanced fishery required for your goals. As the female bass age periodically add to the population with a few new females - i.e. ladder stocking.
The other option is to use feed trained bass and harvest all the LMB offspring possible. This keeps the original stocker bass growing to your goals. The main problem with this is the trained bass reproduce and the offspring become more and more less pellet trained as annual recruitment occurs.
Your goals are achievable if you use the correct methods to reach the goals.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 06/22/17 09:31 PM.
